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EnterpriseAppsToday: "One of the more interesting features of vendors' recent marketing push to sell business intelligence and analytics is the emphasis on the notion of Big Data, often associated with NoSQL, Google MapReduce, and Apache Hadoop."

The explosion of “big data”--much of it in complex and unstructured formats--has presented companies with a tremendous opportunity to leverage their data for better business insights through analytics.

Here are examples of how big data analysis occurs in the real world.

Community management specialist uses known users to validate its analysis of others.

The Register on a new EU law, due to go into effect next year, that requires sites to ask for consent prior to storing cookies on a user’s browser:

An exception exists where the cookie is “strictly necessary” for the provision of a service “explicitly requested” by the user – so cookies can take a user from a product page to a checkout without the need for consent.

Other cookies will require prior consent, though, and the law must be implemented in member states by May 2011.

On the Web Development Blog today there's a new post about 404 pages and some of the things you can do to make them a bit more useful than just a "not found" message.

Sharing content on Facebook hasn’t generally been as easy as it has been on Twitter.

Part of Twitter’s advantage is just how easy it is to share from blogs and other websites.

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When you upload a video to YouTube, you get access to YouTube Insight, a powerful analytics tool that shows you a bunch of interesting metrics about your video: who’s

Among the upgrades is an integration of Google Analytics with AdSense, Google's advertising network for Web publishers.